Chairperson: Tshepiso Chikapa Phiri
(Known Associates Entertainment /Moonlighting)
Tshepiso Chikapa Phiri is the CEO and founder of the Known Associates Group of Companies, which includes a below the line agency, design studio, film production development and finance company and is currently building a state-of-the-Art film and television Studio in the Cradle of Humankind outside Johannesburg. KA skilfully produces and directs world-class projects in the communications, experiential, and relationship marketing industries, both locally and across Africa.
She is a University of Cape Town Alumni, with 20 years’ experience in communications, events, media, marketing, and film and television production. Her career includes working in international events including the North Sea Jazz Festival and Sithengi Film Festival. She has also worked in classic advertising as a ‘suit’. In she decided to commit to a career as a television and film producer. Her training ground was at Bomb Productions where she was the Associate Producer on the drama series Zone14.
In she formed a boutique film and television production company Zing Entertainment with her partner Joel Phiri
September Award-Winning Filmmaker and screenwriter Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's career has spanned over 15 years covering an entire spectrum of filmmaking disciplines. Most notably, his documentary and feature film work has enjoyed screenings at various prestigious international film festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival (Korea), Dubai Film Festival amongst others. In an AIDS documentary he directed for Sesame Street won the prestigious Peabody Award in America for best actuality programming.
Among many successes in his career, Jahmil was the South African Standard bank Young Artist of the year in the Film category. His second feature film Of Good Report () has the inauspicious reputation of being the first feature film to be effectively banned in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
The film went on to garner many international plaudits and awards. It had it's World premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival in It is also the first African film to be selected in official competition at the London International Film Festival in The film went win the
by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
Either directly or cloaked, my work is a reflection of the universe that I inhabit. As an indigenous young African, I find myself confronted by a world in constant flux; it is so unrelenting that it can&#;t help but inform my chosen reality. Trying to swim in the sociopolitical tide that is globalization. What does a day-dreaming, rural African boy hold on to? His unclear yet colonised past? His passive-aggressive present? Or does he set sail towards an uncharted but highly anticipated future?
The Background
I got into commercials as a way to understand the technical craft of filmmaking. I did not go to film school. After wetting my feet with documentaries, I just wasn&#;t satisfied that I was being exposed to the science of it all. Through commercials I got to experiment with animation, compositing, CGI, etc which vastly expanded my knowledge of the craft. For me all roads end at cinema. It&#;s the ultimate tool of expression. I love the idea that one can embed a fable with all manner of social and political commentary without being too committal.
I have been a filmmaker for 13 years now. In that time I have had to sweat blood to get to where I am n
Jahmil X.T. Qubeka is the afro- futurist filmmaker
Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s unwavering search for African identity distinguishes him from any other filmmaker. He specifically created Blood Psalms, a Showmax Original in collaboration with CANAL+, as a reimagining of ourselves as Africans, answering the question, who are we?
Blood Psalms is billed as the biggest and most ambitious African series yet, written, produced and directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka and Layla Swart-Najaar from Yellowbone Entertainment. The episode series debuted on Showmax in September with 11 weeks of new episodes.
(Swart-Najaar and Qubeka were responsible for South Africa’s Oscar entry, Knuckle City, a boxing drama that won six awards at the South African Film and Television Awards, including Best Director for Qubeka and Best Editor for Swart-Najaar)
GQ chats with Qhubeka to discuss the birth of this masterpiece and his contribution to African cinema and the local television industry.
GQ: Who is Jahmil?
Jahmil X.T. Qubeka: I’m a storyteller. Through the use of moving imagery. I paint pictures that reflect my subconscious perspective on the human condition. I was born to parents Solomzi and Nolu
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